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Plates and Plate Boundaries - Galdetegia
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) African Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) African Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform boundary
  • 12. The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
A) lithosphere
B) outer core
C) asthenosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) transform
C) convergent
D) submergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) Indian and Eurasian Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) air currents
B) current events
C) convection currents
D) ocean currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Continental Drift
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Trench Theory
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) All of these
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) mountains
C) fossils
D) bassalt
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) India
B) Maine
C) The Pacific Plate
D) California
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) false
B) true
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) true
B) false
  • 24. There is no evidence that Pangaea ever existed
A) false
B) true
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Seafloor Spreading
B) The continents
C) The Earth's Core
D) Mountain ranges
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